Irregular past shows little style shifting across planning conditions¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1987 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Little style shifting took place in irregular past across the three conditions. → Rod Ellis 1987

Evidence¶

Rod Ellis 1987¶

Rod Ellis. (1987). Interlanguage Variability in Narrative Discourse: Style Shifting in the Use of the Past Tense. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, Volume 9, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263100006483

q2 · i? · causal · r1

In the study of 17 intermediate L2 learners under three planning conditions, irregular past tense accuracy was largely stable across conditions; the abstract reports that "Little style shifting took place in irregular past".

"Little style shifting took place in irregular past, whereas style shifting for past copula occurred only between planned speech and unplanned speech."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• The three planning conditions produced different accuracy orders for regular and irregular past, questioning the stability of the natural order — related
• L2 learners style-shift in past tense accuracy within narrative discourse according to the amount of planning time available — a broader claim this one bears on
• Past copula style shifting occurs only between planned speech and unplanned speech — related
• Regular past tense accuracy is greatest in planned writing, intermediate in planned speech, and least in unplanned speech — related
• Monitoring significantly improves a second language learner's accuracy on learnable rules (subject-verb agreement, regular past tense) in the most monitored style — related